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...does take off, it will mark a comeback for Douste-Blazy, a medical doctor by training who received withering press at home during his brief stint as Foreign Minister from 2005 to 2007. It's no accident that he's a Frenchman: the French have for several years levied a compulsory tax on airline tickets to help fund development projects and have long sought to get others to join them, with mixed success. Brazil is one of only a few countries to have followed suit. Norway also taxes airline CO2 emissions and uses the receipts for overseas aid. (Read "France...
...particularly on how the constant violence between the two territories impacts their residents. Mograbi is well-known for adding incongruous elements to his films, including dark humor and his own musings, which often reflect his pacifist views. He says that his aversion to violence began to develop after a stint as a reserve soldier in 1983, when he refused to fight in the war between Israel and Lebanon. “I thought the war was initiated for no reason,” he says, “but now my views are more so. At the time...
Economist Marc J. Melitz has returned to Harvard this fall as a full professor after having left campus in 2006 for a two-year stint at Princeton. Melitz, who is well known for his research on international trade and firm-level responses to trade, was an assistant and associate professor at Harvard between 2000 to 2006. According to Economics Professor Ariel Pakes, Melitz “changed a whole field with his thesis” that presented a new model for international trade economics. Economics Department Chair John Y. Campbell said that Melitz’s work...
...Practiced law from 1972 to 2001, including a stint as a deputy counsel at the Energy Department under President Ronald Reagan. Also worked as an aide to both Representative Floyd Spence and Senator Strom Thurmond...
...Kureishi is a tidy man, his shirt buttoned, his gray curls - and his sentences - clipped. He was "very pleased and flattered" by his CBE and extols a recent stint teaching at Yale as "very comfy." But his spot in the cultural establishment is proof that his revolution succeeded. He's about to start on the screenplay of The White Tiger, the Booker Prize winning novel by Indian author (and occasional TIME contributor) Aravind Adiga. That a story about a poor Indian hustling his way in Bangalore sold millions of copies all over the world, notes Kureishi, shows that post-colonial...